I noticed that whenever Dr. Krashen talked to us in St. Paul this summer about comprehensible input and how it should be interesting, he also added, as I remember, that the input should also hopefully be compelling,
It seemed to me as if he has lately come to see that in fact interesting CI is not really enough. I’m not sure if I am right on that point, but I definitely noticed his frequent use of the word compelling that week. He would say “interesting” and then add a short phrase about making it “compelling” if possible as well.
If this is true, than ordered “instructional plans” (which are based on one concept having to be taught before another concept in a certain order) are specious, because they cannot hope to be compelling. The conscious mind is the domain of subjects in which conscious – read linear – thinking is required. It is NOT the domain of language acquisition, which takes place uniquely in the domain of the unconscious mind.